{"id":687455,"date":"2010-03-10T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:45:47","slug":"kansas-city-power-light-to-turn-garbage-into-green-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/687455","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Power &amp; Light To Turn Garbage Into Green Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/biofuel.png?resize=8%2C8\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Biofuel\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6892\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 143px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iStock_000008702958Small.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6892   \" title=\"IStock -- garbage \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/iStock_000008702958Small-199x300.jpg?resize=133%2C202\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain of green fuel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kansas City Power and Light (KC&amp;L), the Kansas City, Mo.,\u00a0 power utility is planning to use garbage as a feedstock to generate electricity at a plant it is developing in Saint Joseph, Mo., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Specifically, the plant will pipe methane gas created from decomposing garbage piled at the Saint Joseph landfill. Methane is a gas that if left to seep into the atmosphere can be more virulent than green house gases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Saint Joseph landfill has 3 million tons of garbage collected from 17 counties. The plant is expected to start operating next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2010\/03\/09\/1801363\/kcpl-to-use-methane-from-st-joseph.html#ixzz0hnCsKTRN\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/LfNqA1rwWTA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mountain of green fuel&#8230; Kansas City Power and Light (KC&amp;L), the Kansas City, Mo.,\u00a0 power utility is planning to use garbage as a feedstock to generate electricity at a plant it is developing in Saint Joseph, Mo., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Kansas City. Specifically, the plant will pipe methane gas created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SPZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}